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Katherine Anne Porter Dies at 90; Won a Pulitzer for Short Stories; A 50-Year Harvest Katherine Anne Porter, Prize-Winning Writer, Dies 'Feminine and Fierce' Little Sense of Time Brush With Death 'A Sense of Our Own History' Stirred by Mexican Trip First Published Story Praise Not Universal

By LAURIE JOHNSTON ();

September 19, 1980,

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Katherine Anne Porter, whose critical acclaim for her short fiction outlived the later popular success of her 1962 novel, "Ship of Fools," died yesterday in the Carriage Hill Nursing Home in Silver Spring, Md. She was 90 years old.

September 19, 1980

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